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J. G. HARRINGTON.

BRACELET.

No. 291,900. v Patented Jan. 15, 1884.

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JOHN C. HARRINGTON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

BRACELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,900, dated January 15, 1884,

Application filed April 16. 1883. (No model.)

To a. whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN G. HARRINGTON, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Bracelets, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in an improved clasp for spring-wire bracelets, as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bracelet. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section taken in the line as x of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the bracelet unclasped. Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation of a modification. Fig. 6 represents a section taken in theline z 2, Fig. 5.

In the drawings, A is the hollow wire of which the braceletis formed, and is provided at its ends with the ornamental tips 13 B. Upon one of the arms of the bracelet, at an intermediate point between the laterally-lapped ends of the same, is secured the catch-stud G, and upon the opposite arm of the bracelet is secured the ball D, or other suitable ornament, having a beveled or rounded under surface, in which is formed a slot or opening, (1, adapted to receive the catch-stud C, for the purpose of locking the arms of the bracelet. The'ornament D is placed slightly in advance of the catch-stud G on the other arm of the bracelet, in order that the resilience of the springwire A in the direction of the plane of the bracelet may serve to hold the stud O firmly in the opening (I. The opening (I may be either made in the direction of the plane of the bracelet or at an angle thereto, as best adapted to the form of the ornament D.

A modification showing an inclined ornament provided with an inclined slot is shown in Fig. 5, and the slot cl made in the rounded under surface of the ornament should rise high enough at its forward end to receive the catch-stud O, as shown in the section, Fig. 6, without requiring the vertical springing of the lapped ends of the bracelet.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the stationary hollow ornament having a rounded under surface provided with a slot, substantially as described, and attached to one of the lapped arms of a spirally-wound Wire bracelet, with the catch-stud attached to the opposite lapped arm of the bracelet, the catch-stud being adapted to pass under the elevated front end of the slot and to the rear lower end of the same under the inwardly-resilient action of the arms of the bracelet, substantially as described.

JOHN G. HARRINGTON.

Witnesses:

H. S. BABCOOK, S. SCHOLFIELD. 

